MEDEA (Cherubini) at Covent Garden, La Scala, the MET and Vienna State Opera

 

Luigi CHERUBINI

 

MEDEA

 

Medea, Jason, Glauce/Dirce, Creon

 

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN

 

Premiere: 30 April 1870

 

1870: Therese Tietjens, Gustav Gunz, Sofia Scalchi, Eraclito Bagagiolo: c. Auguste Vianesi (2 performances)

 

New Production: 17 June 1959 (ed. Lachner)

Production: Alexis Minotis

Sets and Costumes: John Tsarouchis

 

1958 – 1959: Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Joan Carlyle, Nicola Zaccaria

17 June 1959 (5 performances)

 

New Production: 6 November 1989

Production: Mike Ashman

Sets and Costumes: Bernard Culshaw

 

1989 – 1990: Rosalind Plowright, Alexei Steblianko, Renée Fleming, Robert Lloyd: c. Mark Ermler

6 November 1989 (6 performances)

 

TEATRO ALLA SCALA, MILAN

 

Premiere: 30 December 1909

Sets: Angelo Parravicini

Costumes: Lodovico Pogliaghi and Giuseppe Palanti

 

1909 – 1910: Ester Mazzoleni, Silvano Isalberti, Linda Elvira Cannetti, Nazzareno De Angelis: c. Edoardo Vitale

30 December 1909 (11 performances)

 

New Production: 10 December 1953

Production: Margherita Wallmann

Sets and Costumes: Salvatore Fiume

 

1953 – 1954: Maria Callas, Gino Penno, Maria Luisa Nache, Giuseppe Modesti: c. Leonard Bernstein

10 December 1953 (5 performances)

 

New Production: 11 December 1961

Production: Alexis Monotis

Sets and Costumes: Yannis Tsarouchis

 

1961 – 1962: Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Ivana Tosini/Bruna Rizzoli, Nicolai Ghiaurov: c. Thomas Schippers

11 December 1961 (6 performances)

 

New Production: 14 January 2024

Production: Damiano Michieletto

Sets: Paolo Fantin

Costumes: Carla Teti

 

2023 – 2024: Marina Rebeka/Maria Pia Piscitelli/Claire De Monteil, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Martina Russomanno, Nahuel di Pierro: c. Michele Gamba

14 January 2024 (6 performances)

 

METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW YORK

 

Premiere: 27 September 2022

Production and Sets: David McVicar

Costumes: Doey Luthi

 

2022 – 2023: Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani/Rafael Davila, Janai Brugger, Michele Pertusi: c. Carlo Rizzi

27 September 2022 (8 performances)

 

STAATSOPER, VIENNA

 

Premiere: 1 January 1812

Sets: Kaspar Melchior, Matthias Gail, Lorenzo Sacchetti

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1811 – 1812: Pauline Milder, Giuseppe Siboni, Elisabeth Röckel, Johann Michael Vogl

1 January 1812 (12 performances)

 

1817 – 1818: Wilhelmine Lembert, Giulio Radicchi, Anna Warnitzky, Johann Michael Vogl

3 January 1818 (9 performances)

 

1818 – 1819: Wilhelmine Lembert, Giulio Radicchi, Anna Warnitzky, Johann Michael Vogl

4 September 1818 (6 performances)

 

1831 – 1832: Marianne Katharine Ernst, Binder, Schnitt, Karl Oberhoffer

24 May 1832 (2 performances)

 

New Production: 26 November 1880

 

1880 – 1881: Amalie Materna, Leonard Lablatt, Bertha Ehnn/Anna Riegl, Hans von Rokitansky: c. Hans Richter

26 November 1880 (2 performances)

 

New Production: 31 January 1972

Production: August Everding

Sets and Costumes: Arik Brauer

 

1971 – 1972: Leonie Rysanek, Bruno Prevedi, Lucia Popp/Constanza Cuccaro/Renate Lenhart, Nicolai Ghiuselev: c. Horst Stein

31 January 1972 (6 performances)

 

1972 – 1973: Leonie Rysanek, Bruno Prevedi, Lucia Popp, Nicolai Ghiuselev: c. Berislav Klobučar

6 February 1973 (2 performances)

 

1973 – 1974: Leonie Rysanek, Juan Oncina, Edita Gruberova, Nicolai Ghiuselev: c. Alexander Sander

11 April 1974 (2 performances)